In this project, volunteers will collect eDNA from around 800 lakes around the world. Credit: Kristy Deiner Taking an accurate census of the organisms in an ecosystem is a challenging task—an observer ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. It’s been more than 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci died. Yet, in those intervening ...

They numbered 20 in all — 10 men and 10 women who came to a sprawling medical campus in downtown Buffalo, New York, to volunteer for what a news report had billed as “the world’s biggest science ...

The ability to extract trace bits of DNA from soil, water, and even air is revolutionizing science. Are there pitfalls? By Peter Andrey Smith/Undark Published Feb 14, 2024 8:06 AM EST This article was ...

NASA is contributing to the One Million Acts of Science event, which seeks to encourage people to participate in various scientific projects and rack up one million individual contributions by the end ...

Emerging methods are improving the ability to identify even highly degraded human remains. By Damien Cave Reporting from Hanoi, Vietnam The world is facing an abundance of tragic events that produce ...